This course will cover topics such as legal reasoning in bioethical situations, determination of death, issues of human reproduction, organ transplantation, genetic testing, clinical research with human subjects, and end-of-life decision making. This second survey course in the health law area will provide the students who take this course and Healthcare Organizations and Finance (Law 830) with a broad understanding of this increasingly important area of the law. Neither class is a prerequisite for the other class. They may be taken concurrently or in any order taken by the student.

This course examines the liability issues that arise from the provision of medical care. The course studies the physician/patient relationship, when it begins and how it can be terminated. It examines the extent of the duties owed by providers to patients, including requirements relating to confidentiality, informed consent and records disclosure. The course also provides a detailed treatment of the common law of provider liability, focusing on medical malpractice. The course also examines the question of legislative reform of medical liability.

This course is designed to introduce students to general bookkeeping and accounting principles. Class discussion will concentrate on the relevance of accounting judgments to legal issues rather than focusing on technical problems. Students will examine income statements, balance sheets, and other accounting documents. Emphasis will be placed on an understanding of accepted accounting principles undergraduate financial accounting can take this course only with permission of the professor.

This course builds on Partnership Tax (but which is NOT a prerequisite) and focuses primarily on corporations and S-Corporations. It is an essential course for anyone planning to practice corporate law.

A comprehensive survey of the basic legal devices to control the use of land, theories of land use planning, nuisance, private agreements, zoning and zoning procedure, the role of the federal government in land planning, exercise of eminent domain, and selected Kentucky problems, such as rural zoning and proposed New Towns for Appalachia.

The law governing the issuance, distribution and trading of securities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; the obligation to register securities; public offerings by issuers; secondary distributions; and registration requirements growing out of mergers, definition of a requirements; insider trading prohibitions; antifraud provisions in tender offers, self tenders, proxy solicitations and the purchase and sale of securities.

The role of the legal system in regulating the interrelated subsystems within the physical environ- ment, including: water and air pollution, solid waste disposal, and strip mining. Emphasis on: constitu- tional limitations on the public's power to implement planning proposals; relationships between federal, state and local governments; structure of agencies regulating environmental quality; standards for admin- istrative discretion; the openness of administrative hearing procedures; and the scope of judicial review of administrative decisions.

History, organization, and structure of American labor unions; obligations and prerogatives of employers; questions of representation; privileges and obligations of unions; collective bargaining and dispute settlement.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the law as it impacts the American primary and secondary education system. Course topics include education as an individual right and a state duty; campus safety; student and teacher rights relating to expression, religion, and privacy; educational policy development; copyright issues; education of students with disabilities; educational funding and accountability; and other topics as they timely emerge in the ongoing public debates over education policy and law.

Introduction to the legal process by which interests are adjusted and decisions reached on the international scene. Treaties, the law of inter- national organizations, the "common law" of nations and national laws with significant international ramifications are examined to determine their effect on international cooperation and coercion.